Motherboard component level repair for amateures & Mac Gyvers

**foxmobouser** · 03-22-2013, 02:09 AM

Originally Posted by najiro

So I tried fixing the socket pins.. No luck.. It remained the same..

my RMAed P8Z77M-PRO is back. I'm confused whether to continue using the P8Z77-V with 2 dimm slots or the replaced P8Z77M-PRO... well, I only have 2 rams right now.. Just wondering if maybe I could get more in the future... just thinking...

Well if you have 2 ram slots working in dual channel I dont really see a sense in having all 4 populated. If the system works fine then I would use it and sell the good rma return and save the money for a better upgrade in the future.

**foxmobouser** · 04-04-2013, 01:24 AM

Well I seem to have a moment in my motherboard soldering empire to get back to working on my threads. I'll be updating this thread with a lot more info shortly. The journey in pursuit of my new hobby has led me down many interesting roads.

One of the most shocking and exciting one was when I picked up a store return mb as broken/not posting for 5$ and after looking at it found that It was missing a bios chip. I called the manufacturer and they sent me a new one for free and after installing it the mb worked perfect.

**PP Mguire** · 04-04-2013, 05:29 AM

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

**najiro** · 04-04-2013, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by PP Mguire

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

You're not talking in a third-person point of view right? O___O

**foxmobouser** · 04-04-2013, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by PP Mguire

You can make bank doing this, easily.

I have a friend who makes bank off HDDs from EDS (Electronic Discount Sales, small business here in the DFDub). He goes and buys enterprise drives that are a dollar or 2 classified as dead, or only have dead boards. He sends them all back to Seagate and with his company RMA gets brand new 2-4TB Barracuda XTs on request. He then sells them for 20 or 25% off and banks total freakin bank. He bought his whole PC that way. (3960x, 680 4GB FTW+)

Thats what I have been doing the past few weeks with my extra time just with motherboards. Sadly I the only soldering i did was on 1 capacitor only to find out later that there were damaged traces, desoldered a 1155 socket with a heat gun and straightened a ton of pins. Most manufacturers will fix damaged sockets for anywhere from 20-50$ which is pointless to do on any low retailing motherboard. To replace a socket on your own aside from having skill is pretty tough without having some sort of BGA rework station 500-5000$.